{"id":40786,"date":"2010-07-22T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/fea40d7ccad0cb7e8d166b0581d5975c"},"modified":"2010-07-22T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:42:32","slug":"techs-work-on-discoverys-oms-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=40786","title":{"rendered":"Techs Work on Discovery&#8217;s OMS Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will make fuel and oxidizer cross feed connections in space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s right Orbital Maneuvering System, or OMS,  pod today. <\/p>\n<p>  The techs will be wearing Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or SCAPE, hazardous operation suits which will protect them from the toxic chemicals they will be in contact with while working on the engine. <\/p>\n<p>  The shuttle&#8217;s two OMS pod engines make major course adjustments for the vehicle while in space and also is used to slow down a shuttle allowing gravity take over as it falls out of orbit for its return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 crew members are enjoying a well-deserved vacation this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will make fuel and oxidizer cross feed connections in space shuttle Discovery&#8217;s right Orbital Maneuvering System, or OMS,  pod today. <\/p>\n<p>  The techs will be wearing Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or SCAPE, hazardous operation suits which will protect them from the toxic chemicals they will be in contact with while working on the engine. <\/p>\n<p>  The shuttle&#8217;s two OMS pod engines make major course adjustments for the vehicle while in space and also is used to slow down a shuttle allowing gravity take over as it falls out of orbit for its return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>  The six STS-133 crew members are enjoying a well-deserved vacation this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}